Collecting My Thoughts

170 End of the Year Wrap-Up, December 31, 2003 I made a note in April: "Mice who lived in enriched cages with toys and wheels had far m...

#169 New Year's Eve These years come and go so fast. I haven't even made a list of problems to solve (my replacement for New Year...

#168 The gift of Helps Yesterday I visited a friend recently released from Dodd Hall at Ohio State Medical Center where she was in rehab for...

#167 Wireless libraries I just checked the Wireless Librarian Web Site , which tells which libraries in the U.S. are set up for wireless net...

#166 Girl meets God Book club is meeting next Monday night and the selection is "Girl meets God" by Lauren F. Winner (Algonquin Bo...

#165 Meeting a champ Ohio State 2003 football team captain and scholar Craig Krenzel doesn’t exactly have rock star status in Columbus, Ohio...

#164 Lost and Found In writing class about a year ago, the instructor asked us to go around the room and suggest words for two columns of in...

#163 Killing the golden turkey In Ohio, employers could be sued if an employee was injured in a non-work related auto accident and driving h...

#162 Criminal SUVs I saw a small headline in the paper yesterday, "Good Samaritan killed by SUV in hit-and-run accident."

#161 Cookies, pt. 1 I subscribe to the e-mail editions (easier to read) of Collector’s Newsletter because I like their amusing, home-spun st...

#160 The Good Patient Comments overheard at the surgery clinic (rotator cuff) Tuesday and Wednesday between my husband and various staff mem...

#159 Joe's double I like Joe Lieberman , I really do. But he reminds me of Willie Tanner, of the 1980s comedy “Alf” played by Max Wrigh...

#158 Merry Christmas to All Everyone had gone home with the new gifts packed away in the shopping bags in which they had arrived, beautifull...

#157 The new notebook I bought myself a new coffee-time notebook yesterday--a purple Miquel Rius (made in Spain) with about 5 sections tinte...

#156 Thoughts at the surgery clinic The rotator cuff repair had been suggested last February--but he needed his arm to close out his archite...

#155 Starting late, better than never Penelope Fitzgerald’s “Afterlife; Essays and Criticisms” appeared on a top 10 books of the year 2003 l...

#154 Missions accomplished I left the house with a sack of used kitty litter, a library book, a grocery bag of 36 hamburger rolls for Faith ...

#153 December 21st, a poem Christmas will be here in only four days. House is festive--we found the artificial poinsettia in the attic wi...

#152 Traveling with Pilgrim, pt. 1 While returning from Indianapolis this morning, I pulled out my tape player and tapes and held them up to...

151 Christmas in Indiana Each year there is a new face at the family Christmas in Indiana. Sometimes it is a baby, a spouse, a significant...